The Founder

I’ve known some blazes of my own

A burning fire inside my bones

A holocaust of holiness

Set by some alien righteousness

Like no other I have ever known

There’s a man in the fire with me

Who shines His light to make me see

To this glory I am turning

For the burning is a yearning

For the true fire that will set me free

He is the founder of the flame

To purify me is His aim

So he stokes the holy heat

Till my undoing is complete

And I will never be the same

Cast into the righteous mold

A new man risen from the old

To His image now to be conformed 

Till my likeness is transformed

Then the maker’s mark you might behold.

He is the founder of the flame

To purify me is His aim

And so He stokes the holy heat

Till my undoing is complete

And I will never be the same

November 10, 2024

Anthony Foster